At least it ain't VHDL, which stands for VHSIC Hardware Description Language, or, in full, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language. Its name is as much of a clusterfuck as the language itself.

Just off the top of my head: Alien and Aliens are wonderful, Apocalypse Now needs no introduction, Interstellar, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and finally Oppenheimer, which is one of the best movies ever made in my opinion (what can I say, I'm a sucker for an incredibly well-told story).

Definitely rookie numbers, I'm somewhere around 1100 Firefox tabs atm...

Vectrex, hands-down.

One of my favorite emacs features is the VHDL stutter mode (which replaces certain repeatedly-typed characters with operators), as well as an easy to get to rectangle select, and it just being decently fast compared to something like VSCode. I also never have to take my hands off of the keyboard, because it's all right there. It just feels better to me.

Personally, I'm a big fan of XMPP, due to the inherent resiliency in being decentralized/federated, and due to the security provided by OMEMO (based on signal's algorithm). Don't have to worry about third-parties messing with my data if it stays on my server that's in my house.

This one on lemmy.today, and my original account with the same username on lemmy.world.

Been on a break for a bit, but before that we got a Tektronix 535A oscilloscope from the 1950s-60s up and running (with the exception of a gain issue with the vertical amplifier, haven't quite figured out the cause yet), and did some work on reverse-engineering and emulating the analog filters of the MOS 8580 SID on an FPGA (still heavily WIP, haven't gotten around to a rewrite yet so it's still really jank, college is a bitch).

In theory you can fire up vi(m) in an emacs terminal, so... I guess?

2.5 MEGA65s (R3A, R5 and R6), several vacuum tube oscilloscopes (including a 535A I restored), and a Vectrex.

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark. It's a surprisingly fun read.

English, C++; Z80, 6502, and 45GS02 assembly, some SQL, VHDL, a bit of Python and Verilog, BASIC65, bash, CP/M ED, and a few other odds and ends

Matrix has flaws as well, use XMPP.

Do repos on GitHub and assorted messages on text-based communication platforms count as content? Because if that's the case, then all the time, because I generally write stuff down in case I proceed to forget exactly what that function did or why I calculated this bypass coefficient like this or why for the love of fuck does vivado keep reverting to incremental synthesis and how did I fix it last time aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

As for if my random technical nonsense has any bearing on the world, not really, outside of maaaybe the demoscene if the SID stuff works out, and the few people who like reading my ramblings for some reason.

sad XMPP noises

Unexpected Keyboard is pretty nice.

I've used XMPP for this before, using ejabberd as the server and Conversations/Monal as the client, it worked pretty well, altho ejabberd can be a bit of a handful to get running initially.

For mono Unity stuff, I'll use dnSpy (by way of the dnSpyEx fork) to decompile the game, test changes by editing the DLL directly with it, then port everything over to BepInEx in some form or another.

Heads up, looks like this image was stolen, original source as best I can tell (based on the watermark in the corner, as well as being far older) is https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/67394923, by QYS3

I haven't tried running a matrix server, but ejabberd has been very solid, and it's not too difficult to set up.